Hong Kong Dance Company 2024/25 Dance Season

Hong Kong Dance Company Unveils 2024/25 Dance Season

"Moving Beyond Tradition"
with Exciting Line-up along with
New Arts Education Space and Dance Scholarship Supported by Henderson Land

Hong Kong Dance Company (HKDance) holds a launch event today to unveil the 2024/25 dance season lineup, its cultural exchange initiatives, and the upcoming establishment of a new arts education space in Hong Kong Island East. Guests attending the event include Mr. Chris Ip, BBS, JP, Chairman, Committee on Venue Partnership, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department; Mr. Tsang Kee-kung, MH, Broad Chairman, Hong Kong Dance Company; Ms. Meggy Cheng, Executive Director, Hong Kong Dance Company; Mr. Yang Yuntao, MH, Artistic Director, Hong Kong Dance Company; artists for Grand Dance Poem After Snowfall, internationally renowned violinist Ms. Yao Jue, SBS, JP and new media artist Mr. Chris Cheung; composer for Martial Arts Dance Drama Storm Clouds, Mr. Choi Sai-ho; renowned art director Mr. Man Lim-chung, and founder of the Hong Kong designer brand Sparkle By Karen Chan, Ms. Karen Chan, among others.

The guiding principle of 2024/25 Dance Season is “Moving Beyond Tradition”. The programmes incorporate both tradition and innovation, each unique in style.

• A Grand Dance Poem of Calligraphy After Snowfall: Inspired by Wang Xizhi’s famous letters to his friends and involving collaborators including Ms. Yao Jue, SBS, JP as guest violin soloist and new media artist Mr. Chris Cheung, it fuses elegant melodies with innovative arts tech in the beauty of the Sage’s calligraphy.
• A Dance of Drumming Pulses: It presents a collection of drum dances, portraying how pulse and movement encapsulate folk culture as rhythm and dance inspire us to ponder our heritage.
• An Epic Martial Arts Dance Drama Storm Clouds: An adaptation of Ma Wing-shing’s enduring classic, the programme returns to life on stage after a near decade hiatus. Furthermore, HKDance will extend the artistic experience from the theatre to a large-scale outdoor arts tech production. Funded by Arts Technology Funding Pilot Scheme, HKDance collaborates with the very best of local arts tech personnel, providing audiences with a deeply philosophical and highly imaginative sensory journey into the world of Hong Kong’s classic comics, set against the magnificent night sky of Victoria Harbour.
• Arts Education Theatre Dance-to-know Mulan: The Ballad of Mulan is a well-loved poem, recited generation after generation for over a millennium. The story of a maiden taking the place of her father to join the army underscores such traditional Chinese virtues as courage, loyalty, filial piety, and humility.
• The large-scale family dance musical, Henderson Land presents The Kids in Rainbow Jerseys 2.0: more than 400 performers young and old reenact a story of perseverance and sportsmanship in song and dance, inspiring children to be steadfast and courageous while pursuing their dreams.

New Arts Education Space at Hong Kong Island East

HKDance is grateful for the support of Community Education Partner, Henderson Land Group. HKDance will establish a new arts education space at Hong Kong Island East in the 2024/25 season with the express purpose of bringing Chinese dance into the community, upholding HKDance’s unique philosophy of “learning, performing, appreciation”. And with the newly established “HDance Community Education Fund”, the Company shall enable even more talented and ambitious young dancers to enjoy professional training and performance opportunities.

Touring: Convergence Chinese Dance ✕ Martial Arts

In the new dance season, HKDance will continue its efforts in researching and producing works that fuse dance with creative vision, bringing the award-winning Convergence to the international stage. Since 2022, HKDance has toured this production to Bangkok, Tokyo, Kanazawa, Beijing, and Urumqi. This year, HKDance will travel to Sydney, Penang, Shenzhen and Shanghai, among other places, contributing its efforts in promoting culture and artistic exchange.

Mr. Tsang Kee-kung, MH, Broad Chairman, Hong Kong Dance Company states at the event, “Hong Kong Dance Company is committed to promoting Chinese dance with contemporary artistic visions and Hong Kong character. In the past year, thanks to the hard work of our colleagues at Hong Kong Dance Company and the support of the audience, we reaped a fruitful harvest. Our work, Whispers of the Pines, won the 13th China Dance “Lotus Award” for Contemporary Dance and HKDance received three major accolades at the 25th Hong Kong Dance Awards, bearing testament to more than 40 years of dedication and effort in building the Company’s solid artistic foundations. We will soon embark on our 2024/25 Dance Season: apart from crafting new works and sustaining heritage, we are also launching fresh chapters in dance education and arts tech, dedicating our energy to promoting development and exchange in arts and culture, nurturing talent, and actively supporting Hong Kong as a nexus in fostering and advocating Chinese culture.”

Mr. Yang Yuntao, Artistic Director of Hong Kong Dance Company says, “Putting our art into practice, we adhere to heritage, making steady progress in fostering innovation. We ponder how our bodies carry tradition yet embody contemporary aesthetics. We invite audience to experience the greatness and beauty of dance.”

Hong Kong Dance Company 2024/25 Dance Season advance subscription is available from 19 June to 31 July, 2024. Audience can enjoy premium discounts for purchasing specific number of productions of the new dance season in one single transaction on or before 31 July 2024.

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